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A town of 6,532 in Clwyd, Wales.
Broughton grades B+ overall against UK towns: better than 67% of UK towns, and #6 of 39 in Clwyd. Its strongest subject is jobs & income (B): mean household income £47,743; 1.9% of 16 to 64s claim unemployment benefits. Its weakest is health (C+): 4.3% in bad or very bad health, 16% disabled (adjusted for age in the grade). The median home sold for £225,000 in the last three years, 4.8 times what households in the Flintshire council area earn in a year.
This town's Health Grade uses ONS's small-area life expectancy and healthy life expectancy for 2019 to 2023, and two Census 2021 measures, bad health and disability, adjusted for age. English towns' grades also use OHID's small-area early deaths, hospital admissions and child obesity, which OHID publishes for England only.
Each subject compared with the 2,160 UK towns with an overall grade (schools within Wales), ordered by how far Broughton is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
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Cadw lists 4 buildings inside Broughton’s built-up area, 1 of them Grade II*.
4% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town.
The archive holds 1 old photo or postcard going back to 1805.
Explore the history →Museums, castles, gardens and days out in and near Broughton. Best known first.
CathedralChester Cathedral4.6 km outside town, to the northeast
Castle · English HeritageChester Castle4.3 km outside town, to the east
CastleOld Hawarden Castle1.4 km outside town, to the northwest
CastleHawarden Castle1.1 km outside town, to the northwest
FortChester city walls4.5 km outside town, to the east
MuseumGrosvenor Museum4.3 km outside town, to the eastPhotos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Broughton.
The heritage lists give each building’s grade but not its age, so we don’t say which is oldest.
Broughton has 4 listed buildings inside its built-up area on Cadw’s list: 1 Grade II*. 4% of its homes were built before 1919.
Cadw list, October 2026 · Valuation Office Agency, homes by build period · OGL
It is listed below. Its one primary school teaches 584 pupils.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Broughton Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 584 | – |
Half the people of Broughton are older than 40.6. Retirement age and beyond: 18% of residents are 65 or older. Degrees are held by 32% of adults, higher than Clwyd’s towns (29%) and near Wales’s towns (31%).
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Across Wales, 51% of residents are women.
| Broughton | Clwyd | Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.1% | 10% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 28% | 23% | 25% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 18% | 23% | 21% |
| No qualifications | 14% | 20% | 20% |
| Apprenticeship | 6.5% | 6.5% | 5.6% |
| A levels or similar | 21% | 17% | 17% |
| Degree level | 32% | 29% | 31% |
ONS Census 2021 · Clwyd and Wales: all residents of their built-up areas · OGL
One GP practice serves the town. The nearest A&E to Broughton is The Countess of Chester Hospital, 4.9 miles away. Men in Broughton can expect to live to 78.3, women to 83.7 (2019–23).
| Census 2021 | Broughton | Clwyd | Wales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 84% | 79% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 4.3% | 6.5% | 7.1% |
| Disabled (Equality Act) | 16% | 22% | 22% |
ONS Census 2021, general health and disability · ONS, life expectancy 2019–23 · OGL · Read these answers with age in mind: they aren’t adjusted, so younger places do better. The Health Grade uses age-adjusted measures, life expectancy among them.
Social housing holds one in ten households, below Clwyd’s towns (16%) and Wales’s towns (18%) alike. Just over one in ten households rent privately. Private rents average £811 a month across the Flintshire council area.
| By type | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | £317,000 | 76 |
| Semi-detached | £210,000 | 132 |
| Terraced | £199,975 | 38 |
| Flat or maisonette | £149,000 | 9 |
HM Land Registry Price Paid · ONS private rents · MHCLG / Welsh Government council tax · ONS Census 2021 tenure · OGL
Burglary and damage came to 7.2 per 1,000 residents a year, below Clwyd’s towns (10.7) and Wales’s towns (10.7) alike. Broughton logged 354 reported offences in a year (to August 2026), plus 59 complaints of anti-social conduct. Violence and sexual offences accounted for nearly two fifths of recorded crime.
Not gradedAnti-social behaviour, shoplifting and other theft are shown but left out of the Safety Grade, which counts violence and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident.
data.police.uk street-level crime · points inside the ONS built-up-area boundary · OGL · The police category of violence and sexual offences includes harassment and stalking.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in lockdown, so 25% of workers were mainly at home; shares here are of those who travelled.
The car took 84% of commuters, about level with Clwyd’s towns (83%) and above Wales’s towns (81%). Jobs per working resident: 3. Of the commuters living in Broughton, 21% work in the town itself.
ONS Census 2021, method of travel and distance to work · ONS small-area income · DWP claimant count · OGL
The nearest built-up areas, from ONS’s 2022 boundaries. See them on the map →
| Town | People | Miles | Overall | Cost | Safety | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Broughton | 6,532 | — | B+ | B | B | C+ |
| Higher Kinnerton | 1,731 | 1.5 | — | C | A+ | A+ |
| Hawarden | 14,284 | 2.4 | B | B | B− | C+ |
| Penyffordd | 3,822 | 2.5 | A | C+ | A | A+ |
| Aston | 2,847 | 3.1 | A− | B | B+ | B |
| Garden City | 2,427 | 3.6 | — | B− | D− | D |
| Shotton | 6,500 | 3.7 | C | A− | D | D |
| Buckley | 13,562 | 3.7 | B− | B+ | C+ | C |
Higher Kinnerton and Garden City have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. People: Census 2021. Miles: centre to centre.
About the middle for its size: 35% of the 1,308 UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people report less crime per resident. Against all UK towns, it grades B.
Homes cost less than in most UK towns: the median sale over three years was £225,000, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. By type: flats £149,000, terraced houses £199,975, semi-detached houses £210,000 and detached houses £317,000.
Band D council tax in Broughton is £2,376 for 2026–27, less than in 63% of UK towns (the Flintshire council average, with police and community councils). Your own bill depends on your home’s band; check it on GOV.UK.
Town in Clwyd, Wales
Broughton is a built-up area of 6,532 people, in the Flintshire council area. TownRatings uses ONS’s 2022 built-up areas as towns: the physical town, as people mean the word, rather than a council district, so its figures cover the town itself.
Built from ONS geography and Census 2021
Sources: ONS Census 2021, output areas summed to the ONS 2022 built-up area · HM Land Registry Price Paid (standard sales, September 2023 to August 2026) · ONS Price Index of Private Rents (August 2026, by council) · MHCLG and Welsh Government council tax, Band D 2026–27 (with parish precepts in England) · data.police.uk street-level crime, 36 months to August 2026, points inside the built-up-area boundary · ONS small-area life expectancy and healthy life expectancy, 2019 to 2023 (England and Wales), OHID Fingertips small-area indicators (England) and Census 2021 health, adjusted for age · ONS small-area income estimates (financial year ending 2023) · DWP claimant count via Nomis (January to August 2026) · Cadw listed buildings, scheduled monuments and registered historic parks and gardens via DataMapWales, October 2026, inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary · Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties by build period (31 March 2025) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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